Anglo-Turkish fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu, 37, came to England from Montreal to study at the Royal College of Art. He set up his own label in 2005 and has since dressed everyone from Anne Hathaway and Keira Knightley to Michelle Obama. He was named Womenswear Designer of the Year at the 2014

For Barnaba Fornasetti, son of the famous Milanese artist Piero Fornasetti, the hardest thing about living in the family property is that it is not just a home but a showcase for his father’s incredible creativity. “It is a house, a museum, a studio,” Barnaba explains, and one for which he feels

Denise Elphick’s daughter has warned her mum not to get “too doggy”. Now that she has moved on from her career as a journalist and co-founder of restaurant booking service Top Table (which she sold in 2010), Elphick’s new venture, Pets Pyjamas, is concerning her daughter, Camilla, 24, a little. The

If Steve McQueen wins the Oscar for Best Director in Hollywood tomorrow night, he will be the first black director to do so. His film 12 Years a Slave, an unflinching and harrowing account of the life of Solomon Northup, a free African-American abducted and sold into slavery in the mid-19th

Their starring roles in catwalk shows transformed fashion’s fortunes – as well as their own. And Cindy and friends have kept busy since their heyday Milan, 1991. The finale of the Versace show, and modelling history was about to be made. The most famous girls in the world – Linda, Cindy, Naomi

During the first five years that Amy Smilovic lived in her six-bedroom, six-bathroom house in “back country” Connecticut, her friends were less than impressed. When they visited the home, with its three reception rooms, kitchen, office, hall, basement and swimming pool, they were looking forward to

Before she ever gave The Look or questioned anyone’s ability to whistle, Lauren Bacall was Betty Bacal, the fashion model (she later added the second “l” to help with pronunciation). Fashion editor Diana Vreeland put Bacall on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar in 1943, which caught the eye of Nancy

It’s telling that despite being the face of a car campaign, Georgia May Jagger, 22, can’t actually drive. “I am getting my licence,” she protests as we chat in the British Fashion Council VIP lounge in the epicentre of London Fashion Week in Somerset House. The fact is it doesn’t really matter

There are few stages in the world that feature an ageing rocker, a First Daughter, a hip-hop mogul and a Muppet (Miss Piggy wearing Julien Macdonald, no less). But such is the versatility of the “Frow” – front row – during any Fashion Week (including London’s, which is under way right now) that it

Oxfordshire-born actor Rupert Friend, 32, is best known for playing Johnny Depp’s lover in The Libertine, Prince Albert in The Young Victoria and Peter Quinn in Homeland. He dated Keira Knightley for five years and is now seeing amputee athlete Aimee Mullins. He lives in New York. I wish I had hit